During an exercise with the Estonian Air Force, two RLAF F-35s employed AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles to shoot down a ...
AIM-9X is the fifth generation Sidewinder and is now currently in production. The AIM-9X features a high off-boresight focal-plane array seeker mounted on a highly maneuverable airframe with a ...
Specifically, the aircraft is armed with a mix of AIM-120C AMRAAM, AIM-9L/M and AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missiles and eight GBU-39 SDB glide bombs, as well as two 370 gallons external fuel ...